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  Lonaconing, Maryland
The earliest white settlers—farmers, hunters, and woodsmen—came to the Lonaconing area in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
The Lonaconing iron furnace was the first in the United States to successfully use bituminous coal and coke in the smelting process.
To them, Lonaconing will always be “home.” Their loyalty attests to the solidity upon which Lonaconing was built and still stands.
www.mdmunicipal.org /cities/index.cfm?townname=Lonaconing&page=home   (384 words)

  
 Lonaconing, Maryland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lonaconing is a town in Allegany County, Maryland, United States located along the Georges Creek Valley.
Lonaconing is the birthplace of Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Lefty Grove.
He was responsible for the construction of the tram road in 1847 from Lonaconing to Clarysville, Maryland.
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 The Beeman Family Ancestry Part ll
She was born November 20, 1799 in Eckhart Mines, Allegany County, Maryland, and died January 01, 1877 in Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland.
Charles Henry Beeman was born on the Koontz Farm January 10, 1839 near Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland, and died November 24, 1914 in Charlestown, Allegany County, Maryland.
She was born August 18, 1842 in Lonaconing, Allegany Co., Maryland, and died December 28, 1924 in Lonaconing, Allegany Co., Maryland.
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 Lonaconing News
The Allegany College of Maryland Foundation has announced the awarding of scholarships to 15 students for study in the 2006-07 academic year.
In the woods at the fringe of this Western Maryland town, a mountain of waste 50 feet high is slouching into a creek that's tinted an eerie orange.
Maryland State Police are continuing their investigation into a police-involved shooting that occurred last night when a Pennsylvania man, who had been arguing with his girlfriend, pointed a gun at Troopers who...
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 History of Lonaconing, Allegany County MD
The Lonaconing iron furnace was the first in the United States to successfully use bituminous coal and coke in making pig iron.
Using Lonaconing as a base, these men would hire a horse and wagon and travel the country roads with the various items needed in households along the way.
Through it all Lonaconing has been a friendly, happy place, with a prevailing neighborly spirit, where a warm welcome and a helping hand in time of need are ever present.
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Gustave, born 5 Jun 1868 at Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland.
Conrad Frederick, born 17 Jul 1878 at Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland.
Melvin Leslie, born 25 Oct 1895 at Maryland.
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 Robertson Family of Midland - pafg04.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Drucilla was born 19 Oct 1860 in Lonaconing, Allegany County Maryland.
Elizabeth Robertson was born 19 Oct 1882 in Lonaconing, Maryland.
Isabelle married Archibald Hutcheson 15 Jun 1888 in Lonaconing, Maryland.
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 Dye Family Genealogy Part ll
Collista Margaret Dye was born July 13,1869 in Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland,and died September 12, 1921 at the age of 52 yrs., 1 mos.
She was buried on Sept. 14th in the Dye Family Cemetery, on the west side of Dan's Mountain, Lonaconing, Maryland.
James Dennis Grove was born April 28, 1870 in Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland and died April 10, 1946 in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
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 Maryland ArtSource - Artists - Ruth Bear Levy
Once she started making pictures, the subject matter she chose most often was derived from the Baltimore land- and cityscapes that surrounded her, as well as from her memories of her hometown during her childhood.
Of Lonaconing, Maryland, Levy depicted kids playing ball and jumping rope, her father's general store, interiors, people working, coal cars and scenic views of the Western Maryland countryside.
Levy's paternal grandfather emigrated from Bavaria and settled in Frostburg.
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 George's Creek - Mining   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
The Lonaconing iron furnace built in 1837 was the first in the United States to successfully use bituminous coal and coke, rather than charcoal, in making pig iron.
But Harvey reported that Maryland mines allowed boys to work with their fathers or older brothers and their earnings were credited to the adult member of the team.
By 1918 their mines in the “Big Vein” were abandoned, and in 1930, the company produced less than 3% of the coal mined in Maryland, according to the Baltimore Association of Commerce, and had fewer than 100 employees.
www.whilbr.org /GeorgesCreek/index.aspx   (1049 words)

  
 MARYLAND FIELD RECORDINGS IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE: Finding Aid (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
Charles Anderson of Baltimore, Maryland, recorded at the Library of Congress in April 1947 by Duncan Emrich, Arthur D. Semmig, and Herman Norwood.
AFS 12,597: One tape containing thirty nine songs and recitations by Joseph A. Winn of Bethesda, Maryland, recorded in Accokeek, Maryland in October 1966 by Joseph C. Hickerson.
AFS 17,601: One tape containing herb lore by George (Foxy) Crawford, recorded in Lonaconing, Maryland, in June 1973 by Margaret B. and Gerald E. Parsons.
www.loc.gov /folklife/guides/Maryland.html   (1542 words)

  
 Lonaconing, Maryland MD, town profile (Allegany County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Maryland > All counties > Allegany County > Lonaconing
Lonaconing is a town in Allegany County, in the Cumberland metro area.
Median rent in Lonaconing, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $199.
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 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Sculptures > Cordell Hull
Sculptor George Conlon was born in Lonaconing, Maryland, to a working-class family, and sought employment at an early age in the Allegany coal mines.
There the aspiring artist was reported to have made a bust of Maryland Governor Edwin Warfield from the plastic clay that was used to plug holes in the mine walls.
After attending the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Conlon was awarded the prestigious Rinehart Scholarship, allowing him to study in Paris at the Academie Julian and the Academie Colarossi.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/art/artifact/Sculpture_24_00002.htm   (653 words)

  
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This practice continued with the railroads through the early parts of the twentieth century: railroad crossing guards at the time were mostly one-armed or one-legged men, the victims of accidents with link-and-pin couplers or manual brakes.
From 1840-1870, Maryland was seventh in the nation in iron production, rising to fifth, but iron manufacture in Maryland declined sharply after that.
The Maryland ore was never that good and the discovery of rich veins in the Great Lakes Region, coupled with the emergence of the huge integrated iron conglomerates in the Pittsburgh Region and southeastern Pennsylvania, put small, local operations like that at Mt. Savage out of business.
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 COLLECTIONS - Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage
At the request of the Homemakers' Clubs the watercolors of the churches were painted by George Hall of Chester, Maryland.
Broadsides were used in Maryland in the mid-Nineteenth Century for political agitation, advertisements, poems, ballads, and Civil War propaganda, from the Enoch Pratt Free Library Digital Exhibit.
This site, hosted by the Western Maryland Public Libraries, features images from the collections of the public libraries, historical societies and individuals in the three counties: Garrett, Allegany and Washington.
www.mdch.org /collections.aspx   (991 words)

  
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Richard Hotchkiss, 52, whodied Wednesday mornin 2 CONC g at the Maryland General Hospital, Baltimore willbe conducted from the Methodist Episcopal C 2 CONC hurch of Midland tomorrowafternoon.
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 Lonaconing, MD Houses, Apartments, Cars, Mortgage Status, and Residents Info
Back to: Lonaconing main page, Maryland, Maryland smaller cities, Maryland small towns, All US cities.
Median gross rent in Lonaconing, MD in 2000: $315
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 Midland, Maryland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Midland is a town in Allegany County, Maryland, United States located along the Georges Creek Valley.
The town of Midland is 1600 feet about sea level, is located 5 miles south of Frostburg, Maryland and 3 miles north of Lonaconing, Maryland.
In the 1930's, the mine was operated by the Sloan family from Lonaconing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Midland,_Maryland   (1686 words)

  
 Lonaconing, MD (Allegany County) - town travel guide - ePodunk
Maryland > All counties > Allegany County > Lonaconing Town
Lonaconing is a small community, with a population of 1,205, in the Western Maryland region
Churches, other places of worship in or near Lonaconing
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 Lonaconing, Maryland (MD) Detailed Profile - relocation, real estate, travel, jobs, hotels, hospitals, schools, crime, ...
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 George's Creek Public Library
Take Rt 135 to Westernport and then follow Rt 36 north to Lonaconing, MD. The library is on the right after the stoplight.
Located in the city of Lonaconing, Maryland, the library features architectural reminders of the George's Creek area, including a reproduction of the Iron Furnace, used in the mid-1800's by the George's Creek Coal and Iron Company to make iron from coal.
The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player trophy of former Lonaconing resident Lefty Grove will also be housed in a special showcase in the library meeting room.
home.alleganycountylibrary.info /locations/georges.htm   (171 words)

  
 The Klotz Throwing Mill Company in Lonaconing: Opening Tut's Tomb
The dynasty collapsed several years before the last production run in 1957, when reelers, coners, and testers walked away from what was now General Textile Mills--and never returned.
The doors closed and time froze; just as the Valley of the Kings obscured Tut's tomb, the Alleghenies sheltered the Mill at Lonaconing.
This field report describes early twentieth century silk yarn production in situ, supported by documentation in over fifty linear feet of Mill records, and workers' oral histories.
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 Lonaconing singles - Lonaconing dating - Lonaconing personals
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 Lonaconing Real Estate
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 Whilbr - Western Maryland Historical Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
A copy of the painting is on display at the George's Creek Regional Library.
It is included in her book A Wee Bit of Scotland: Growing up in Lonaconing, Maryland.
Lefty and Ruth were contemporaries growing up in Lonaconing.
www.whilbr.org /itemdetail.aspx?idEntry=684   (94 words)

  
 Georges Creek: A cooperative Approach Moves Restoration Efforts Forward
The Maryland Bureau of Mines will be installing one in-stream and three out of stream limestone leach beds; constructing five limestone sand application sites; complete access road construction at two sites; and planting buffer zone vegetation at one site within the same Neff Run area.
As the Allegany County Project Impact Initiative was restoring Neff Run, Allegany County’s Department of Public Works was implementing a comprehensive stream restoration and greenway park development project in Lonaconing, Maryland.
The Lonaconing project area was severely damaged during two major flooding events in 1996.
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 Maryland Web Page
Find homes and other property for sale in Baltimore, Columbia, Silver Spring, Dundalk, WheatonGlenmont or any of the other communities in Maryland.
The weather for Annapolis, Maryland is reported by a local weather station using a combination of TAF and METAR reports from airports and weather stations in the area (ICAO).
The time displayed on the weather output is the last reported update for that location.
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 Lefty Grove's hometown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
Mary Meyers' "Lonaconing: A Home in the Hills"
Ruth Bear Levy, a Lonaconing artist whose subject matter included Lefty Grove
Another Lonaconing lefty, George A. Meyers, labor and political activist
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